Nitto Enters European High-Speed, Large Capacity Plastic Optical Cables Business for High-Definition

November 8, 2017

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nitto Denko Corporation (hereinafter “Nitto”) (TOKYO:6988) announced today that it will enter the high-speed, large capacity plastic optical cables business in Europe. The company will begin preparations for mass production and sales slated to begin in 2019 and the new cables will contribute to its vision

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FASTRSM, a nonprofit research consortium dedicated to automotive cybersecurity, today announced the availability of “Automotive Industry Guidelines for Secure Over-the-Air Updates.” The guidelines are intended to assist automotive manufacturers and others involved in evaluating platforms for secure

KIYOSU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has concluded an agreement with EBM Corporation*1, a medical device startup company started at Waseda University in Japan, to work together for the development and widespread adoption of surgical training simulators using e-Rubber,*2 an advanced material Toyoda Gosei is currently developing.
As

The German Association of Tool and Mould Makers‘ (VDWF) networking event for young entrepreneurs took around 40 moldmakers on a three-day trip around Lake Constance in October 2017 to visit OEMs and innovative mold shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. VDWF’s event called “Voll Wild” has traditionally been a one-day

The German Association of Tool and Mould Makers‘ (VDWF) networking event for young entrepreneurs took around 40 moldmakers on a three-day trip around Lake Constance in October 2017 to visit OEMs and innovative mold shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. VDWF’s event called “Voll Wild” has traditionally been a one-day

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (NYSE: OEC) (the “Company” or “Orion”), a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance Carbon Black, announced today that Kinove Luxembourg Holdings 1 S.à r.l. (“Kinove Holdings”) and certain other sellers, including current and former

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tatsuo Yasunaga, CEO of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 8031, ISIN: JP3893600001) hosted an analyst conference on Monday November 6, 2017 to announce financial results for the six-month period ended September 30, 2017. An audio webcast of this conference is now available at:

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) announced today that it has priced an underwritten offering of 17,000,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $24.00 per share, before offering discounts. The offering will result in gross proceeds of approximately $408 million to ATI. ATI granted the

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coveris Holdings SA (“Coveris” or “the Company”), a premier global packaging manufacturer, today announced that it has realigned its operations into four business units: Americas, Rigid, EMEA, and UK Food & Consumer. This action was taken to continue to enhance how the company delivers service

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (NYSE: OEC) (the “Company” or “Orion”), a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance Carbon Black, announced today that Kinove Luxembourg Holdings 1 S.à r.l. (“Kinove Holdings”) and certain other sellers, including current and former

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, today reported financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2017. Fiscal Second Quarter 2018 Financial Highlights
Record total revenue of $25.2 million, up 5% year over year

ROTHSCHILD, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) announced David Faucett has been named mill manager of Domtar’s Rothschild paper mill in Rothschild, Wisconsin, where he has served as interim mill manager since July 1, 2017.
Faucett brings more than 20 years of experience at Rothschild to this role, previously

LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: LQMT), the leading developer of amorphous alloys, reported results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2017. Q3 2017 Operational Highlights
The Company reached major milestones in its readiness plan for volume production in medical and automotive markets.

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) announced today its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 17,000,000 shares of common stock in an underwritten registered public offering. ATI expects to grant the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to 2,550,000 additional shares of common

To say that the XC60 is an important car for Volvo, would be to vastly understate the case. In the nine years that the first generation vehicle has been out there (yes, that’s a long run in some ways, but there were refreshes along the way, so it’s not like there were simply model year 2009 five-seat crossovers in Volvo dealerships that

“Automated driving will provide an important contribution to making life easier for the driver, and to creating a more efficient overall traffic flow, with fewer critical situations or accidents”, says Dr. Elmar Degenhart, chairman of the executive board of Continental.So the company, which consists of five divisions—Chassis &

CHANDLER, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG) today announced Senior Vice President and CTO, Bob Daigle, and Senior Vice President and CFO, Janice Stipp, will be presenting at the Baird Global Industrial Conference in Chicago on Wednesday November 8 at 9:30 am CST.
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on the

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, NAVYA unveiled AUTONOM CAB, an unprecedented response to the challenges of modern mobility, creating a veritable revolution in the urban mobility market. Autonomous, personalized and shared, this unique mobility solution answers the major challenges urban populations face traveling in and around cities. In a decisive

Upping the Ante on LiDAR Regular, even casual, readers of this space, or any space dedicated to technology underpinning self-driving vehicles, know one thing: LiDAR is hot right now. Quebec-based LeddarTech Inc. is the latest to secure another investment, but nine figures would seem to rank as one of the highest we’ve seen. A combined

A total of 29 colleagues donated 116 volunteer hours to this worthy cause to help the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, which provides more than 50,000,000 meals each year.
The team at SIFCO Applied Surface Concepts’ Cleveland, Ohio, headquarters showed its support for disadvantaged local residents and helped at the local food bank

RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Preferred Proppants, LLC (“Preferred Sands” or “Preferred” or the “Company”), one of North America’s leading manufacturers and providers of high-quality sand and innovative proppant technologies, today announced the Company was awarded a Certificate of Inclusion into the Texas

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced it has successfully completed an important milestone in developing advanced solid rocket propulsion and other technologies to be used in a new generation of intermediate- and large-class space launch vehicles. The company is in

SST, a global distributor of machine tool and consumable brands, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony October 30, 2017, to officially open its new facility in New Britain, Connecticut. The facility will serve as the company’s EDM consumables headquarters, enabling SST to better reach manufacturers seeking machine tools and EDM supplies, and to

Sandvik Coromant has unveiled a high-feed version of the CoroMill 745 face milling cutter, featuring a 25-degree entering angle for productivity gains when milling steel and cast-iron workpieces. New Product Post: 11/7/2017
Edited by Julia Hider
Assistant Editor, Modern Machine Shop Sandvik Coromant has unveiled a high-feed version of the

The dates are set for the third Moulding Expo, which will take place at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre on May 21–24, 2019. The exhibitors, representatives of partner associations BVMF, VDMA, VDW and VDWF and Messe Stuttgart jointly decided on late spring 2019. These dates will not conflict with the Whitsun holidays. The dates also provide

Although it is often declared dead, EDM clearly continues to live and has firmly established itself within manufacturers’ process chains thanks to advances in technology, including EDM automation, faster speeds, power supply and control units, wire threading, electrode materials, programming and software. Most companies’ exhibits at EMO

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SPEE3D, the world’s first metal 3D printer leveraging supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D) technology to deliver manufacturing grade printing at production speeds, today announced the company’s official global launch and availability of its industrial 3D printers. Designed for scalable, just in time

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD) unveiled its all-new Blue Bird Vision Electric Type C school bus at the NAPT conference in Columbus, OH. The electric powertrain is supplied by ADOMANI (ADOM), with drivetrain and vehicle control software developed and produced by their technology partner, Efficient Drivetrains,

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flatirons Solutions, Inc., a part of the Flatirons Jouve group of companies dedicated to Turning Content into KnowledgeTM, is pleased to announce the acquisition of CORENA Suite software and services by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The purchase is a follow-on to a 2015 pilot project. The CORENA Suite

Siemens is releasing new functions with its Sinumerik 4.8 CNC software, designed to significantly improve the speed, precision and safety of machine tools.New Product Post: 11/7/2017
Edited by Eli Plaskett
Assistant Editor, Modern Machine Shop Siemens is releasing new functions with its Sinumerik 4.8 CNC software, designed to significantly improve

AKRON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Myers Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MYE) today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017.
Third Quarter 2017 Business Highlights
Net sales increased 8.6% (or 8.1% excluding currency fluctuation) compared to the third quarter of 2016 Gross profit margin of 28.3% compared to 27.1% in the third

MIAMI & HOLLYWOOD, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HEICO Corporation (NYSE: HEI.A and HEI) announced today that it entered into a new $1.3 billion unsecured revolving credit facility (the “Facility”) with a banking syndicate led by SunTrust Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank. Other banks participating are BB&T Bank, Capital One,

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Getac is introducing the EX80 fully rugged tablet, its first Zone 0 device -- ATEX / IECEx Zone 0 and UL913-certified (Class I / II Division 1) for use in environments with the highest risk of explosion. Zone 0 environments are deemed as areas where explosive gas is continuously present in the atmosphere or present

PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AdvanSix (NYSE:ASIX) today announced its financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2017. The Company generated strong results across a number of metrics including sales volume, income and operating cash flow.
Third Quarter 2017 Highlights
Sales up 13% versus prior year, including 5% volume

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Chemical Corporation (NYSE: WLK) today reported record net income for the three months ended September 30, 2017 of $210.8 million, or $1.61 per diluted share, on record net sales of $2,108.9 million. Net income attributable to Westlake Chemical Corporation increased $145.1 million, or $1.10 per diluted

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Chemical Partners LP (NYSE: WLKP) (the "Partnership") today reported record net income attributable to the Partnership of $13.4 million, or $0.47 per limited partner unit, for the three months ended September 30, 2017, an increase of $4.7 million compared to third quarter 2016 net income attributable to

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rockwell Automation is being recognized by the Catalyst CEO Champions For Change (Catalyst Champion) initiative—a collective of more than 50 high-profile CEOs who are visibly supporting and driving diversity, inclusion and gender equality within their organizations—for driving change to advance women into

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